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The character 跟 combines the foot radical ⻊ on the left, indicating its connection to feet or movement, with the phonetic component 艮 on the right. Its original meaning refers to the heel of the foot or the back part of a shoe. From this concrete sense of being at someone’s heels, it naturally extended to the verb meaning "to follow" or "to pursue". This later developed into its frequent grammatical use as a preposition and conjunction meaning "with" or "and".
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我跟你学习。
他经常跟我聊天。
请你跟我来。
我跟朋友看电影。
这个跟那个一样。
她不喜欢跟陌生人说话。
如果你跟我去，我就告诉你。
根据报告，公司需要跟上市场变化。